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Answer:
inter

As a prefix (stress on the first
syllable) inter means "between"; as a
transitive verb (stress on the second syllable) inter means "to bury."

[Mootguy: Thanks to Jack Ognistoff
for a great MooT question.]

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While certainly knowing what
"inter" means, i.e. both between and bury", I never thought of both acceptances
at the same time. Thanks anyway.

jowolfar at yahoo.com.ar

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And if there were a net used as a burial shroud, it might be called
an inTER net...

JonAlexandr at aol.com

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Great question! Tricky!

belstrauss at yahoo.com

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Reminds me of invalid - not valid - and invalid - person suffering
from disease or disability. Just a matter of which syllable you stress.

j4tay2001 at yahoo.com

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Whether this is standard American
pronunciation or not, I've heard quite frequently here on the east coast a
stress difference that takes place depending upon which noun the adjective is
modifying. CERebral palsy and ceREbral hemorrhage.

vsv818 at comcast.net

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To get pedantic on you, strictly speaking the first "inter" is not a
word, but a morpheme--an indivisible semantic unit which . It isn't a word
since it can't stand on its own. The second "inter" is both a word and (at
least, I think so) a morpheme. Thus, the better (but granted, more pedantic)
question would be "What semantic unit is it?"

[Mootguy: True. For simplicity's sake, I stuck with "word"
because MooT is a game, not a treatise.]

jacko at lycos.com

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I concur with the MooTguy: thank you mister Ognistoff.

voltzt at lafayette.edu

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This was a fun one! I got it in about 15
seconds, which I think is pretty good. Technically, all words are free
morphemes (with the exception of things like borrowed latinate phrases such as
"quid pro quo"--quo is not a "word", it behaves more like a syllable); "inter"
is a bound morpheme that cannot stand alone. But since most people are not
linguistics scholars, it's ok to call it a "word" for the sake of the riddle.
Thanks to everyone for the interesting discussion.